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Originally Posted by aarono2690
I think in general rockstars engage more in drugs and sex, common rock music themes; than country music stars engage in drinking and driving down a dirt road so that he can go **** the pastor's daughter, common country themes.
I agree that rap is as fake as country.
But I think that with rap you can readily appreciate that mostly everyone knows that the artists are posing to some degree. Saying it’s a dirty trick when country guys fool everyone is maybe not giving the audience enough credit for being in on the ruse. Esp when the audience members themselves are playing up how country they are.
Like, if you have a suburban kid acting hard and going to hear a rapper rap about the many people he has have killed, I don’t think it’s as much people fooling each other as it is artist and audience creating a shared fiction.